Target: Australian Immigration Minister Brendan O'Connor -- Goal: Close the hellish refugee detention center in Nauru. There are currently almost 400 people living in the Nauru 'prison'. To hold these refugees in extended limbo is downright monstrous...

PARLIAMENT: Your petitioners believe that current practices of mandatory and indefinite detention of asylum seekers are harmful, ineffective and unnecessarily costly, and are inconsistent with human rights and Australia's own professed immigration values.

Despite heroic efforts by parents and teachers, there's little education for millions of children amid the chaos and bloodshed.Parents and local aid groups try to provide some form of education for the children, despite the violence and chaos, in order...

A chartered flight has arrived in Erbil carrying urgent relief items for the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to meet the immediate humanitarian needs of Syrian refugees fleeing violence in Syria and crossing into northern Iraq

The 'PNG Solution,' as it has been dubbed, comes as reports emerge that gay asylum seekers currently held in detention centres on the Australian mainland are being withheld copies of LGBTI media, including the Star Observer.

The Prime Minister of Australia has just guaranteed that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) refugees, who arrive by boat, will be sent to Papua New Guinea - where being gay could get you 14 years in jail.

Palestinian-Syrian families, all males under 18 and females of all ages can enter the country without a visa, but generally receive only a two-week to one-month visa, rather than the three months granted to other Syrians

A Bedouin resident of southern Israel was arrested by Israeli police and charged last week with serving as an accomplice to a criminal organization that kidnapped Eritrean and Sudanese nationals in the Sinai Peninsula and extorted their families for ranso

Human Rights Groups have produced evidence that bodies of African refugees have been found in the desert with organs missing. Apparently, African refugees from Ethiopia and Sudan are having their organs stolen in the Sinai Desert by the same people who ar